Climate Change

“Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time. In other words, climate change includes major changes in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns, among other effects, that occur over several decades or longer.” From the EPA website here

Choices we make today shapes our earth’s temperature for tomorrow! The amount of energy and the type of energy we use affects the amount of greenhouse gases we put in the atmosphere in the near future and for years to come.

Our personal choices are important! Greenhouse gases are emitted with the daily activities we choose. For example, burning gasoline when we drive, burning oil or gas for home heating, or using electricity generated from coal, natural gas, and oil all produce greenhouse gas emissions. An individual’s greenhouse gas emissions varies; for example, it depends on the types of fuel your power plant uses to generate the electricity and the amount you use for your home electricity. The efficiency of your furnace and air conditioner, the use or non-use of insulation in your home, and the use of other fuel efficient equipment such as heat pumps, solar panels, etc. affects your individual carbon footprint.

The Kansas Chapter has set the need to educate others on climate change as a high priority and you can find the Resolution Kansas Sierra Club established which commits our Chapter to targeting climate change here. We are also engaging teachers with our climate change education grants.

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